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The Why Can’t We All Get Along Icky-Poo Cute Balloon Juice Friendly Open Thread

by Tom Levenson|  April 17, 20119:30 pm| 23 Comments

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Everyone but me may already have seen this, but am I the only one who immediately thought Maria/Tony watching this?

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[BTW — thanks to all who contributed to my brother’s (and my) rock and roll keyboard education yesterday.  He sends his gratitude and is already working on his groove.]

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  1. 1.

    Spaghetti Lee

    April 17, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    I hate everything.

  2. 2.

    Fred

    April 17, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    I figure that cat just thinks it’s a giant fish that tastes good!

  3. 3.

    Suffern ACE

    April 17, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    @Spaghetti Lee: Even if it’s chocolate covered?

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    April 17, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Is it just me or is the formatting on this post a bit funky?

    FF 4.0 Windows 7

  5. 5.

    Yutsano

    April 17, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    bah, dupe

  6. 6.

    General Stuck

    April 17, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    And end up sprouting from some pod into alien bliss, like in the movies. Fuck that, never fall asleep, or hand the wheel over to a troll. My grandpappy used to say that playing cards, to temporarily flummox us before hollering RUMMY!

  7. 7.

    Fred

    April 17, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    @Yutsano:

    The formatting of this entire site is a bit funky. If they are going for the “Just install random wordpress theme with defaults and call it a day” look then mission accomplished.

    Google Chrome

  8. 8.

    General Stuck

    April 17, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    The formatting of this entire site is a bit funky.

    Flip Flop

  9. 9.

    schrodinger's cat

    April 17, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    What happened to the formatting. Looks like Tunch is upto no good.

    Windows 7 Professional Edition, FF

  10. 10.

    licensed to kill time

    April 17, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    this whole site has gone insane! {{{{AAAAAHHH!}}}

    i feel like i’m inside a martini shaker

  11. 11.

    PurpleGirl

    April 17, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    @Yutsano: Formatting here and in posts below has become wonky. I’m still using FF 3.X and WinXP.

  12. 12.

    TooManyJens

    April 17, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    Pretty sure there’s an extra [/div] tag in this post.

  13. 13.

    PurpleGirl

    April 17, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    I see there is no right hand column but there is comment from Tom Levenson about his bleg yesterday. Could that have sent the format off the rails? When I clicked on the contained reference to yesterday’s post from Tom, the format for that post was okay (in three columns).

  14. 14.

    licensed to kill time

    April 17, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    I’m guessing the video was set up wrong..it’s all Tom’s fault, no doubt.

  15. 15.

    Amir_Khalid

    April 17, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    The formatting is broken only for this post — the preceding open thread and the next one, Comrade DougJ’s post on K-Thug’s Monday column, are fine.

    O Tom Levenson! What hast thou done?

    ETA: And now it’s fixed.

  16. 16.

    TooManyJens

    April 17, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    [voice character=”Zoidberg”]Hooray![/voice]

  17. 17.

    licensed to kill time

    April 17, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    thanks, whoever fixxored it :)

  18. 18.

    Tom Levenson

    April 17, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    What have I done? What has Anne Laurie undone?

    all seems well from where I sit, full of home-made fried chicken.

  19. 19.

    Bill H.

    April 18, 2011 at 1:16 am

    @Fred:
    Nope, the cat head butts the dolphin several times. Cats never head butt their lunch – that is reserved for objects of affection. The reaching out with the paw is clearly, “Hey, come back.” What’s interesting is that the dolphin seems to be very much “into” the cat, as well.

  20. 20.

    HeartlandLiberal

    April 18, 2011 at 6:56 am

    Dolphins have been declared the world’s second most intelligent creatures after humans, with scientists suggesting they are so bright that they should be treated as “non-human persons”.

    Studies into dolphin behaviour have highlighted how similar their communications are to those of humans and that they are brighter than chimpanzees. These have been backed up by anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence.

    Scientists say dolphins should be treated as ‘non-human persons’

    Seriously, see my subsequent comment on broken rendering of block quotes. The two paragraphs above and the URL in the HTML code are clearly wrapped with correct opening and closing blockquote tags. But the first paragraph only is split into proper display as a blockquote. Why can’t this be fixed?

  21. 21.

    HeartlandLiberal

    April 18, 2011 at 6:58 am

    Well, that is just great. Using blockquotes on this web site is STILL BROKEN. Why? Two paragraphs, wrapped with appropriate open and close blockquote tags, using the options on the comment editor. And it displays with the first paragraph broken off. Seriously. How the heck do you do blockquotes when correct syntax is simply ignored when rendered??

  22. 22.

    Rihilism

    April 18, 2011 at 7:45 am

    KITTY!

  23. 23.

    Glen Tomkins

    April 18, 2011 at 10:19 am

    @HeartlandLiberal: If that dolphin is so smart, how come he’s not making dinner of the cat?

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